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I hope the implication isn't that Blaire is too connected; that level of checking email etc is pretty low.

@1, no kidding. When I'm not checking my work email, I'm checking my personal email. For 9 hours a day, 5 days a week.

yesterday:

checked email on laptop: say 100 times
checked email on crackberry: continuous 8am-midnight--it vibrates!
emails received: 62
emails sent: 33
text messages sent or received: 6
hours of basketball or soccer on the tube: 3
hours of iPod (the Shins!): 3
checked Slog, Talking Points Memorandum, HuffPo, etc: say 14

I can stop any time though.

@3: Oh how I love that taco bus! I wish they had wireless so that I could satisfy all my addictions at the same time.

I have it open in a window at work, probably check every 10 to 15 minutes - many have a sound when they get incoming email here. At home I check it probably 2-3 times at night, unless I'm out - but might not check for a week sometimes.

Seriously, this kid isn't anywhere close to being in the same league as a typical Slogger.

I never turn my email browsers (Outlook for work, Gmail for personal) off, so technically, I'm "checking" nine or ten hours a day, not to mention a daily ritual of checking friends blog sites, favorite web sites, MySpace, a couple of online discussion lists, news sites, political sites, work-related sites, SLOG, AND I just programmed my new Nokia phone for email access, web browsing & text messaging - so, really how geeky am I?

Oh, but I should add - I hardly ever watch television - something had to go.

On second thought, I think the difference is that this kid is in COLLEGE. She does not get paid to spend 9 hours a day in front of a computer. When I was in college, I checked my email once a day. When I'm on vacation, I might check it once the whole time. So it's not a sign of weakness that I'm tethered to the internet. It's the nature of the day job.

I'm in university, and in a part-time job ... I'm checking my email right now. I've checked it at least a dozen times already.

Isn't it a little absurd to make the assumption that distracting oneself with the Internet or TV is worse than distracting oneself with reading or jogging?

And while staying "connected" via FaceBook, IM, and e-mail can make one anxious or compulsive, it's certainly more conducive to relationship-building than TV or reading.

I keep a separate computer on my desk - my laptop - for email and research. I probably get 200 emails a day (not including spam) and I probably send 200 out. That computer is open all say long, checking email every minute.

I start to get the DTs if I go more than an hour without checking my email. Thank god for my Sidekick.

Real Mexican tacos are so refreshing.

Did anyone happen to catch the Health Inspector on NPR last week talking about Taco Wagons?

NO one should be afraid of Taco Wagons, but you should be informed of the problems that they face if you have a weak immune system.

Screw the Health Department nazis. Tacos BUILD your immune system.

The wack junior is out of control. I would never waste so much of my time on the intertubes as that. Facebook? My god, that's some heavy shit. How many times a day does she check her makeup?

Am I the only one that has yet to creat a MySpace profile?

indeed, fasting from news, phones, and emails is essential to overall health and a basic not-wanting-to-kill-myself-every-ten-minutes lifestyle. (especially the news--o, God, the horrible news.) i do it at least one day a week---no news, no email, very little phone. i have done it since college. it has kept me, if not sane, pretty. i advise it along with lots of sex and spring water. try it! you'll like it!

oh, and why is she slacking on Facebook - only once a day? sometimes I have three status updates in a day ... she should join my Seminar Junkies group.

Mike in MO, I have a profile but I only use it to troll for pictures of naive teenagers. I've logged into it maybe twice, and I have no friends -- not even that Tim or Jim or whatever his name is. Usually looking at a MySpace page, any MySpace page, makes me want to lie down with a cool washcloth over my eyes.

of, fnarf. we are in accord. i am also myspace-less, by choice, and will remain so forever. FOREVER!!!

Sorry. Gotta go check my email....

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